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Bob Pollard photo by Reuben Frank It was not a smart idea. It was a really stupid idea. It was

I don’t own a cellphone and can’t imagine why I would want to. I don’t spend hours staring at the

It has been even weirder than I thought it would be, living in a country where Donald Trump is the

This was going to be about music and time, about how we’re twice as far from 1977 as from 1997

If I was, as Jeff Tweedy sang, “raised by rock ’n’ roll,” then I have to face a pretty grim

Welcome to the club, Arcade Fire. You’ll get to like it here. The Canadian band has always annoyed the living

In a summer spent reflecting on the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, there’s one aspect of

Years ago, we had a carpenter come in and cover a whole wall of our living room with built-in wooden

So, as always, you come back here to read the musings of the great Phil Sheridan. Well, sorry, this issue

“Rock ’n’ roll is here to stay, it will never die.” —Danny And The Juniors, 1958 “Long live rock, be

I happen to be writing this on the eve of Okkervil River’s show at Lincoln Center in New York. For

I didn’t buy the Guided By Voices tickets thinking they could be for my last show. That was in October,

I don’t think I’ve ever been as ready to rip down a calendar as I have been this year. It

So a middle-aged white dude—a freaking sports writer, no less—went to a Bruce Springsteen show the other night. In 2016